Under the old dispensation this would have meant that his friends and kinsfolk were under the ban.

We had a task under the old dispensation.

Of course, it is the perennial lot of nostalgic types to mourn the old dispensation.

And in one marvellous passage, in which he contrasts the old dispensation with the new, Paul reaches this point as the climax of his theme.

This was a doctrine extraordinarily attractive to immigrants, and to those who were left out under the old dispensation.

Eliot's words: 'no longer at home in the old dispensation', they returned home having found and having been found.

To Hanta, a man of the old dispensation, this is the coup de grace, the end of life as he cares to struggle with it.

One may say: "Everyone knows that that is the old dispensation, and is not to be acted upon."

Under the old dispensation, doctors chose, and their decisions were tacitly accepted.

I should have done you no honour and myself no credit if I had asked you to be my wife in the old dispensation.